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Post by oh oooh on Jul 30, 2019 13:25:37 GMT
Awful.
I enjoyed one or two episodes but honestly, it's so smug and so inconsequential. Seinfeld's fake laugh, some nobody talking about the first time they did standup. Fuck off
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2019 17:30:08 GMT
Awful. I enjoyed one or two episodes but honestly, it's so smug and so inconsequential. Seinfeld's fake laugh, some nobody talking about the first time they did standup. Fuck off Did you watch it to the end though - you might have missed the climax where they order the coffee!
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Post by oh oooh on Jul 30, 2019 17:35:42 GMT
You think you're joking...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2019 22:55:38 GMT
Awful. I enjoyed one or two episodes but honestly, it's so smug and so inconsequential. Seinfeld's fake laugh, some nobody talking about the first time they did standup. Fuck off I think it's interesting. Last night, I watched the Mario Joyner, Martin Short and Jaime Foxx ones. I don't think they're trying to change the world, but I find it interesting to listen to how show business people and comedians think. In the Mario Joyner one, he and Jerry were talking about how there are no more "triple threats" in show business anymore, like Sammy Davis Jr., and then the next one I watched was Jaime Foxx, who displayed how talented he was in just off the cuff stuff. I mean the guy went to Juilliard for classical piano, is a good comedian and impressionist and is good at acting too. I think he qualifies.
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Post by Sneelock on Jul 30, 2019 23:27:31 GMT
I like it too. it's easy to get real tired of the format especially the gurgling of the coffee makers. still, I'm VERY fond of standup. I'm funny looking so people used to tell me I should do it. I never did but I knew people who did and it takes a special breed of Human Bean to do it.
Ellen Degeneres asks him if he loves it when people come up to him and jerry looks at her like she just farted. "No!" he's a cocky bastard but he knows a thing or two about comedy and I find his questions specific and interesting.
in the episode with Michael Richards you can see people looking at the two of them and figuring out that they are two people they know from TV. the format is redundant but I think it makes for a brisk and focused look at how comedians brains work and even what the value of comedy is.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2019 22:14:30 GMT
Ellen Degeneres asks him if he loves it when people come up to him and jerry looks at her like she just farted. "No!" he's a cocky bastard but he knows a thing or two about comedy and I find his questions specific and interesting. I was reading an interview with Chris Rock and an up and coming comic and they were discussing how often to change their act. Rock called Seinfeld a cocky bastard too and related how Seinfeld rarely changes his act because people want to hear the greatest hits. But the thing about Seinfeld is he's been doing stand up since he was 19 or 20 and has rarely had any failures.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2019 22:18:41 GMT
I watched the first three episodes of Ricky Gervais' Afterlife last night. Pretty dark, but very funny. Good peripheral characters like the Office.
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Post by oh oooh on Aug 1, 2019 10:32:51 GMT
I had no idea what tonight's episode was about. Apart from the fact she was a total bitch to that fella at the start. I've already watched it all so not sure what episode you're talking about. The other day someone asked me for a show I really like and I mentioned Better Things. Then he asked what it's about which made me realise that you can't do it justice by describing what it's about. It's everything else, the performances, the writing, the editing, the humour, the realness of it all (mannnn) and, well, Pamela Adlon. Just found out I can binge the rest of the season on the iPlayer, so I'll probably do that tonight. I just watched the third ep where she goes off with that beard to do some winetasting and he books a room for them both and she doesn't like it. I love the way that kind of shit is dealt with - nobody's right, nobody's wrong. Just like life. It's subtle and yet the themes are big and they're universal. And at 20 minutes it's always over just as you start to get into it. Which I like, somehow.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2019 22:17:38 GMT
I found Portillo's Channel 5 doc on the Tories and Europe pretty compulsive viewing, especially when they all tried to pass the buck! Cameron was conspicuous by his absence. Look forward to part two.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Aug 2, 2019 7:21:41 GMT
I like Portillo. His railway shows are up my street
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2019 21:43:13 GMT
I watched the first three episodes of Ricky Gervais' Afterlife last night. Pretty dark, but very funny. Good peripheral characters like the Office. Finished it last night. I really liked it.
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Aug 3, 2019 2:36:40 GMT
4 more episodes to go and then I’ll have finally finished The Sopranos. We only watched three or four seasons the first time around, so this feels like a big deal. I’m kinda nervous!!
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Post by tory on Aug 5, 2019 17:01:56 GMT
I like Portillo. His railway shows are up my street Fabulous blazer and shirt combos too.. Richard James of Saville Row.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Aug 5, 2019 17:59:12 GMT
I like Portillo. His railway shows are up my street Fabulous blazer and shirt combos too.. Richard James of Saville Row. Takes some balls like.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2019 18:21:09 GMT
Apparently he was told to dress that way by his producer.
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